- Research Fields계산수학연구부
- AuthorChi Young Ahn
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JournalJournal of the Korean society for industrial and applied mathematics 18(2), 181-192 (2014
- Classification of papers비SCI
In this paper, we propose a robust real-time myocardial border tracking algorithm
for echocardiography. Commonly, after an initial contour of LV border is traced at one or
two frame from the entire cardiac cycle, LV contour tracking is performed over the remaining
frames. Among a variety of tracking techniques, optical flow method is the most widely used
for motion estimation of moving objects. However, when echocardiography data is heavily
corrupted in some local regions, the errors bring the tracking point out of the endocardial border,
resulting in distorted LV contours. This shape distortion often occurs in practice since the data
acquisition is affected by ultrasound artifacts, out or shadowing phenomena of cardiac
walls. The proposed method deals with this shape distortion problem and reflects the motion
realistic LV shape by applying global deformation modeled as affine transform partitively to
the contour. We partition the tracking points on the contour into a few groups and determine
each affine transform governing the motion of the partitioned contour points. To compute the
coefficients of each affine transform, we use the least squares method with equality constraints
that are given by the relationship between the coefficients and a few contour points showing
good tracking results. Many real experiments show that the proposed method supports better
performance than existing methods.
In this paper, we propose a robust real-time myocardial border tracking algorithm
for echocardiography. Commonly, after an initial contour of LV border is traced at one or
two frame from the entire cardiac cycle, LV contour tracking is performed over the remaining
frames. Among a variety of tracking techniques, optical flow method is the most widely used
for motion estimation of moving objects. However, when echocardiography data is heavily
corrupted in some local regions, the errors bring the tracking point out of the endocardial border,
resulting in distorted LV contours. This shape distortion often occurs in practice since the data
acquisition is affected by ultrasound artifacts, out or shadowing phenomena of cardiac
walls. The proposed method deals with this shape distortion problem and reflects the motion
realistic LV shape by applying global deformation modeled as affine transform partitively to
the contour. We partition the tracking points on the contour into a few groups and determine
each affine transform governing the motion of the partitioned contour points. To compute the
coefficients of each affine transform, we use the least squares method with equality constraints
that are given by the relationship between the coefficients and a few contour points showing
good tracking results. Many real experiments show that the proposed method supports better
performance than existing methods.